Youtube doesn’t have a large competitor challenging it for market share like other major companies do. There are plenty of streaming services, but YouTube is the only game in town when it comes to people generally browsing video content and following their favorite creators.
Coca-Cola has Pepsi. McDonald’s has Burger King. Toyota has Honda. Why doesn’t YouTube have one?
In: Economics
YouTube is insanely expensive and data intensive to run and it doesn’t make Google much money despite that. The vast majority of YouTube content is worthless commercially and people are constantly evading ads when not ignoring them.
As an independent entity, YouTube was certainly going to go bust.
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